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Two newly confirmed "super-puff" planets are so diffuse that they are less dense than cotton candy, despite being about the size of Jupiter. Their rare orbital relationship and enormous, lightweight atmospheres c...

A new study combining data from two distinct brain-machine interfaces has revealed that the human brain processes artificial movement sensations as coordinated, subconscious hand synergies rather than isolated muscle sig...

Researchers present a shift in neuro-nanomedicine, reframing the "protein corona", the layer of blood proteins that coat nanoparticles, as a programmable, five-stage navigation interface capable of guiding therap...

Live Science spoke with Colin Domnauer, a PhD student in ethnobiology whose unraveling of a mushroom mystery could reveal a new hallucinogenic compound.

A "MultiSensy" platform, which combines immersive VR with transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation, generates double the upper limb motor recovery in chronic stroke patients compared to conventional therapy by...

Researchers validated an 1877 anatomical hypothesis by confirming that a rare surface "bridge" across the central fissure occurs in 0.8% of humans and is an extension of normal deep-lying brain folds. The study a...

Researchers demonstrated that exclusive breastfeeding up to six months of age is associated with a clear, independent reduction in childhood ADHD symptoms at ages three, five, and eight, even after adjusting for genetic ...

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light (MPL) have developed a technique for interrogating molecules on surfaces with spectroscopic precision, thereby reaching the ultimate quantum limit for the f...

Scientists exploring ancient seafloor rocks in Morocco discovered mysterious wrinkle patterns where they were never expected to occur. These structures are normally linked to microbial mats in shallow, sunlit waters, yet...

Researchers utilized ultra-precise base editing to alter a single nucleotide in human embryos, demonstrating that the NANOG gene is uniquely required to form the body-building epiblast layer, while revealing key developm...

The Shenlong, or "divine dragon," space plane just deployed a mysterious payload above our planet. The top-secret spacecraft, which has never been properly photographed, has now released at least nine objects in ...

AI-generated text and chatbots increasingly cause real-world harms. The companies that make them need to be held accountable for those harms.

A surgical team successfully performed a rare laparoscopic removal of a 5-centimeter pelvic schwannoma, utilizing a 32-channel intraoperative neuromonitoring system to protect vital sacral nerve roots, completely restori...

To sift through 6 million molecules in pursuit of new gonorrhea treatments, researchers trained AI to select the best drug candidate and then tested it in a "vagina on a chip."

Researchers mapped "social synchrony," showing that face-to-face communication physically aligns the brainwaves of participants.

The long-held idea that rainforests held a minor role in our species' evolution is changing - and our ability to adapt to these tropical areas may give insight about 'what it means to be uniquely human.'

Socotra Archipelago in the Northwest Indian Ocean is home to hundreds of animal and plant species that aren't found anywhere else in the world.

DNA from ancient humans has been found on a prehistoric cave painting and on cave walls, demonstrating the potential to one day identify individual artists and resolve the debate over Neanderthals' artistic abilities...

A new study reveals that goldfish can do far more than survive in the wild-they can fundamentally reshape freshwater ecosystems. Researchers found they cloud water, damage food webs, and hurt native fish populations, som...

Almost every material expands when heated. Well-known examples include railroad tracks and concrete roadways, which feature visible expansion gaps to accommodate this effect. However, thermal expansion poses a far more a...

Physicists at Paderborn University have, for the first time, experimentally demonstrated the so-called "return" of Rabi oscillations in semiconductor quantum dots. The phenomenon, which was first predicted theore...

A new sunlight-powered material can convert visible light into higher-energy UV light, overcoming a challenge that has frustrated scientists for years. The breakthrough could enable cleaner air purification, solar-driven...